Mobile internet usage is doubling year on year

Published on: 6th Mar 2012

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Global internet usage through mobile devices excluding tablets has almost doubled to 8.5% in January 2012 from 4.3% last year according to StatCounter. The firm's research arm highlighted the increasing use of mobile devices to access the internet with market share doubling year on year since 2009.

"While global internet usage through mobiles is still under 10%, the
pace of growth is remarkable," commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter.

StatCounter has also announced that new stats regarding mobile vendors are
now available on its Global Stats website. The firm has been compiling and
refining these stats for some time and has now made the beta project public.

Based on initial research covering all traffic to the StatCounter network,
Nokia leads worldwide, most probably driven by its dominance in India. Apple is
second globally but leads the US and UK markets. In the UK RIM is second only to
Apple.